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Ray Emcees OEN Entrepreneurship Awards Tonight

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 10:00 AM PDT

We were all so proud when AboutUs founder and CEO Ray King won the individual achievement trophy at the OEN Tom Holce Entrepreneurship Awards in 2009. Tonight, Ray will be the emcee for this year’s award ceremony, and we’ll be there to cheer him on.

OEN, or the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, has been encouraging and educating both entrepreneurs and investors for 20 years. The group has facilitated funding and training for dozens of now-successful Oregon companies, making a significant impact on our state’s economic development.

Tonight’s event will honor companies in the development stage,in the working-capital stage, and in the growth stage. OEN will also honor one entrepreneur in the Individual Achievement category, and will honor Gerry Langeler, a founder of Mentor Graphics and managing director of venture capital firm OVP Venture Partners, for lifetime achievement in entrepreneurship.

We’re proud of all the nominees, and want to make sure you have a chance to find and read about every one of them. With no further ado, here they are:

Development Stage category
Expressive Labels of Portland, also known as NoSkinny, provides a unique social shopping experience for bigger teens, making them the envy of their skinny peers.

Gamma Therapeutics Inc. of Portland is an early-stage biotechnology venture developing a novel class of solutions for cardiovascular disease diagnostic testing, surgical therapy and military medicine.

Good Clean Love of Eugene is a sexual health company that designs and sells premium quality organic/natural intimacy products and provides educational resources for building healthy relationships.

Working Capital Stage category
Elemental Technologies of Portland creates and sells video processing technology that helps content programmers, service providers and broadcasters deliver video to TVs, PCs, tablets and mobile phones.

Jama Software of Portland sells its Web application, Contour, to Fortune 500 companies that need a collaboration tool for big projects, from space rockets to healthcare systems to innovative software.

Pulse Health of Portland sells breath technologies that identify health risks through measuring aldehydes, known indicators of free radical damage.

Growth Stage category
Avnera Corp. of Beaverton sells analog systems-on-chip that enable high-fidelity wireless audio products at affordable prices.

EthicsPoint of Lake Oswego sells enterprise risk awareness solutions that help organizations align their governance, risk and compliance processes with overall business strategy.

Full Sail Brewing Co. of Hood River makes and bottles a range of popular beers.

Grape Solar of Eugene provides solar panels and related products and services to American consumers through national retail chain stores and online retailers.

Individual Achievement category

Sam Blackman, co-founder, CEO and chairman of Elemental Technologies

Robert Judge, executive vice president and general manager of Wellpartner Inc.‘s Contract Pharmacy Services

Chris Marsh, co-founder and CEO of Pulse Health LLC